Word: signalized
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...that they're easily offended - the Libyans are kind people who smile easily, and they respond with curiosity to outsiders. Probe a little deeper, though, and their feelings are very mixed. On the one hand, their satellite dishes and cell phones and Internet café s signal that they want to be part of the modern world from which they're isolated by sanctions - and from which Libya's rigidly organized social life discourages them from partaking. On the other hand, they feel unjustly victimized by the West, and many are ready to spring, unprompted, to Ghaddafi's defense...
...plan and dump them at one of the forward posts of the Pakistani army," the Al-Badr veteran says. "People in civvies give us arms, ammunition, food and money (Indian currency). We are asked to check our weapons. After a day or two they give us the signal to go ahead." None of the boys is allowed to carry his own arms to the Line of Control, although sometimes an individual can choose a favorite AK-47 and find it waiting for him at the army camp along the line...
This time, however, he has a small audience who thinks he may be right. "George is signal," says a Fed adviser, referring to the high noise-signal ratio among advice givers to Alan Greenspan. Inside the Bush Administration there has been a move to push economic and security policymaking together, a recognition that on the world stage America's dollars are as important as its missiles. Soros just wants to help target where those dollars are pointed. He's not sure American pockets should be target No. 1. He gives a lot of his money away to support these views...
...recently, out of habit, she says, not because she is hiding. She says on that Friday night, Derwin Brown talked to her about handling his press. She says she does not understand why the Browns or others would suggest she knows more than she is telling. "How could I signal the killer? How do you do that? I don't know anything about killers," she says. She says she admired Derwin as well as his wife. And even though Hood was busy with charity work, caring for her sick mother and not active on Derwin's transition team, she says...
...Well, it's hard to draw too many conclusions from one mixed-signal employment report, but there are signs here that the economy is not headed for a recession after all. Manufacturing has been lagging behind the rest of the economy for years, and what we're seeing in the other sectors is that companies are still hiring and people are still spending. Even consumer confidence, which was dragged down by the six-month outlook, is currently still quite strong, and outlooks can change in a hurry...